I think this may be the most imaginative space technology Bradbury has thus far presented in this collection. I mean, I suppose you could always be Superman and just fly in without a ship or anything, but that seems more unlikely than this story. After all, how else would you be able to fly a ship into the sun, unless it was cold enough to withstand the incredible heat? It’s a brilliant solution, in my opinion. The men inside it are in turn in special suits to keep them from freezing instantly (the ship is said to be one thousand degrees below zero, Fahrenheit). The ship is sort of a giant, incredibly cold freezer. Most fascinating, to me, is the ship that Bradbury designed for this mission. It’s a novel idea, and one which, though I’m not sure it would work in reality, makes for a good story. The premise is that a group of astronauts are going to the sun to collect a sample. An interesting story, and a nice return to space-based science fiction after the past bunch of stories.
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